First line
There is nothing to be afraid of.
From the rear cover
"A religious cliff-hanger--intimate, compelling, hard to put down."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEEager to shake off the indelible brand of a Catholic upbringing, Patricia Hample seeks the "old world" of Catholicism. On her pilgrimage she meets others seekers--crotchety English agnostics, American Franciscan friars and nuns, and the seekers that fill every charter flight. Inevitably, too, she finds the "old world" right at home, in the very past she had tried to escape. But what she is looking for confronts her, finally, on a rereat at a monastery near the Lost Coast of northern California in the still, virgin moments of silent prayer....
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"A religious cliff-hanger--intimate, compelling, hard to put down."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEEager to shake off the indelible brand of a Catholic upbringing, Patricia Hample seeks the "old world" of Catholicism. On her pilgrimage she meets others seekers--crotchety English agnostics, American Franciscan friars and nuns, and the seekers that fill every charter flight. Inevitably, too, she finds the "old world" right at home, in the very past she had tried to escape. But what she is looking for confronts her, finally, on a rereat at a monastery near the Lost Coast of northern California in the still, virgin moments of silent prayer....
Details
- Title Virgin Time
- Author Patricia Hampl
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Later Printing
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ballantine Books, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date 1993-09-07
- ISBN 9780345384249 / 0345384245
- Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 8.54 x 5.56 x 0.64 in (21.69 x 14.12 x 1.63 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Catholic
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Theometrics: Catholic
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93090000
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- Booklist, 09/01/1995, Page 18
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